{"id":1270,"date":"2006-04-13T02:41:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T02:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2006\/04\/13\/my-first-car\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:51:19","slug":"my-first-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2006\/04\/13\/my-first-car\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"79coltdg2\"<\/a> When I turned 19, I decided it was finally time to get my driver’s liscence and buy a car. I remember thinking, "I’m gonna get a 4×4 truck or a nice Jeep!" Then I came home one day and my sweet mother had bought me this exact car. A 1979 Dodge Colt, lemon yellow (and a lemon, it was) with ugly black racing stripes. Not to mention I didn’t know how to drive a stick. After 2 months, that car was dead. I had rode the clutch and grinded gears so much, it couldn’t have lasted much longer than that anyway. That poor car went through hell with me behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

To start with, not a week into owning it, my genius boyfriend put diesel in it. Need I say more? After that was fixed, we proceeded to take it 4×4-ing out in the boonies, getting it high-centered and having to walk 5 miles back to town to call a tow truck. Fun fun. And last, but not the only other thing that I did to that poor car, the town I lived in had one main road with a big hill seperating the two sides of town. Be it bad driving or dead car, I couldn’t make it up that hill and proceeded to roll backwards, screaming at the people behind me to get out of the way. Looking back on that now, I laugh of course, but at the time…well…I’m sure you can imagine. I was so embarrassed, I called my poor mother and chewed her out for putting me through such hell. It was all her fault for buying the stupid thing!! Ten years and a couple of cars later, I’ve made peace with my mom, stopped 4×4-ing with vehicles that aren’t supposed to 4×4, and become a much better driver!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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